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Unified Computing System Overview Marian Klas [email protected]


Virtualization Platform

Compute Platform Network

Platform

Site Cost   HVAC   Power   Dwelling

Platform Cost   Storage   Network   Software ê Server

Organization Cost   Complexity   VM Administrator   Coordination

Costs

Costs Costs

Virtualization has been promised as the answer to IT challenges. However, virtualization solutions to date may only address part of the problem, but has done so by increasing operational expenses, infrastructure complexity, and risk.

High Complexity

High Touch

Data Center Virtualization Today



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Spending (US$B)

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 60

Admin Costs Dominate Budgets

Source: IDC

New server spending Power and cooling costs Server mgmt. and admin. costs

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Physical Server Installed Base (Millions)

Logical Server Installed Base (Millions)

Virtualization = Administrative Avalanche

Impact on the Data Center Operations and Maintenance Now ~80% of IT Budgets and Growing


Process Automation Service Management Performance Management Provisioning Management

Unified Computing Role in Virtualized Data Center

Virtualization OS Applications Infrastructure

Compute Hardware Device Management

I/O (Network) Server Access Network

Storage

Storage Network SAN

MDS 9000

N5000

N7000 Unified Fabric V V V V V V V V

N1000

N5000

CBS 3100

C49xx

DC LAN GbE/10GbE

C6500 N7000

N7000

Network Services

ACE

WAAS ASA

VPN

E-mail Security

Security Application Delivery

Servers

Virtualization Platform

Compute Platform

Network Platform

Resource Scaling with Cisco Extended Memory

Technology

Wire Once Infrastructure with

Unified Fabric

Dynamic Provisioning

Process Automation

Business Service Management

Performance Management

Virtualization control and transparency with 802.1Qbh pre-standard

Automated Provisioning

Fully integrated system that brings together the network fabric, compute resources, and virtualization software to simplify setup, improve business metrics, and enable just-in-time provisioning for business transactions



Cisco Unified Computing System

Unified Fabric

  Wire once, low latency FC and Ethernet

•  Virtualization aware   Scalable, manageable and diagnosable

  Blade form factor   Rack form factor

option

  Intel Xeon Processor 5500/5600/6500/7500/E7 series.

  Massive memory capacity using Extended Memory Technology

Industry Standard Servers

Virtualized Services

  Fine-grained control, portability, and visibility of network, compute, and storage attributes

  Increased Processor Efficiency with VM-FEX/Hypervisor Bypass

Scalable Unified Fabric that delivers up to 320 server nodes in a single system

Up to 30% fewer components, switches, cabling, and management modules to purchase, manage, power, and cool Up to 30% lower memory and SW licensing costs via Cisco Extended Memory Technology

Up to 15% better processor performance via Cisco VM-FEX and Hypervisor Bypass

Automated Provisioning

  Embedded single point of management and provisioning   Visibility and control across technology silos   Ongoing management and compliance

Up to 90% greater administrator efficiency, with faster changes and fewer incidents

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The Cisco Unified Computing System is designed to dramatically reduce datacenter total cost of ownership while simultaneously increasing IT agility and responsiveness.


Cisco Unified Computing System – Key Differentiators

High performance, low latency with a multi-purpose Ethernet-based Fabric for data center network convergence.

Extended Memory

UCS Manager

Service Profiles

Virtual Adapters

Increased Performance and Capacity

Single Management Domain

Just-in-time Provisioning

Unified Fabric Consolidated I/O

Virtualized I/O

Hardware Abstraction “Stateless” Computing



UCS Manager Embedded– manages entire system

UCS Fabric Interconnect 20 Port 10Gb FCoE 40 Port 10Gb FCoE

UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card

UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations

UCS Compute Options Industry-standard architecture

UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters

Modular Building Blocks


UCS Cable Connections

UCS System

Cluster Heartbeat

Chassis

Fabric A link Fabric B link Ethernet • Mgmt • FCoE • IP

Up to 40 Chassis

4 x x 4



Management path via Fabric Extender & Data path directly connected

Cisco UCS C-Series Integration Topology

Fabric Interconnects 61xx

CIMC

LOM PCIe Adapter

CPU Mem

OS or Hypervisor

C200, C210, C250 or C460

Nexus 2248 Nexus 2248

2 LOM ports exclusive CIMC connectivity

Adapter support: •  Emulex CNA •  Qlogic CNA •  Intel 10g NIC •  Broadcom 10g NIC •  Cisco VIC

Mgmt Traffic

Data Traffic

Fabric Interconnects 61xx


LAN Any IEEE Compliant LAN

One Logical Chassis to Manage (Blade Chassis Management, Server Management, Network and Storage Connectivity

Management)

SAN B Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

Mgmt SAN A

Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

Cisco Unified Computing System



Embedded Management

UCS Array Manager

  Single point of device management –  Adapters, blades, chassis, LAN & SAN connectivity –  Embedded manager –  GUI & CLI

  Standard APIs for systems management –  XML, SMASH-CLP, WSMAN, IPMI, SNMP –  SDK for commercial & custom implementations

  Designed for multi-tenancy –  RBAC, organizations, pools & policies

XML API

GUI

Custom Portal

Systems Management Software

Standard APIs

View 1 View 2

CLI


Hardware “State” Abstraction

  Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware

  Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

  Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware

BMC Firmware MAC Address NIC Firmware NIC Settings

Drive Controller F/W Drive Firmware

UUID BIOS Firmware BIOS Settings Boot Order

WWN Address HBA Firmware HBA Settings

State abstracted from hardware

LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity OS & Application

Chassis-1/Blade-2

Chassis-8/Blade-5

LAN SAN

UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN



Service Profiles   Contain server state information

– MAC & WWN addresses for NICs & HBAs – Boot order and BIOS parameter settings – Firmware bundle for the various hardware components

  User-defined – Each profile can be individually created – Profiles can be generated from a template

  Applied to physical blades at run time – Firmware, addresses, connectivity info, and parameters in profile definition applied to blade hardware – Without profiles, blades are just anonymous hardware components

  Consistent and simplified server deployment – “pay-as-you-grow” deployment –  Configure once, purchase & deploy on an “as-needed” basis

  Simplified server upgrades – minimize risk –  Simply disassociate server profile from existing chassis/blade and associate to new chassis/blade

  Dynamic server provisioning – reduce purchases by time-sharing servers –  Re-purpose servers by changing profiles in an automated manner

  Enhanced server availability – purchase fewer servers for HA –  Use same pool of standby servers for multiple server types – simply apply appropriate profile during failover

Run-time association

Server Name UUID MAC WWN Boot info LAN Config SAN Config

Server Name UUID MAC WWN Boot info LAN Config SAN Config

Server Name UUID, MAC,WWN Boot info firmware LAN, SAN Config Firmware…


Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Oracle

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

VMware

Server Availability – Case study

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Blade

Blade

Blade

Oracle

Blade

Blade

Blade

VMware

Blade

Blade

 Today’s Deployment: – Provisioned for peak capacity – Spare node per workload

 With Server Profiles: – Resources provisioned as

needed – Same high availability with fewer

spares

–  CapEx reduced ~26% (4 servers)

Burst capacity HA spare

Service Profiles Unified Computing Enablers:



Optimizing Memory with the Xeon 5600

Xeon 5500 Xeon 5500

Xeon 5600 Xeon 5600

Classic

Cisco UCS With Memory Extension

•  12 DIMMs •  2 DIMMs @ 1333 MHz •  Max 96GB with 8GB DIMMs •  Higher Performance

•  18 DIMMs •  3 DIMMs @ 800 MHz •  Max 144GB with 8GB DIMMs •  Lower Performance

Or

•  48 DIMMs •  8 DIMMs @ 1333 MHz •  Max 384GB •  Higher Performance


Cisco UCS

Savings With Memory Extension Increased System Utilization = Fewer Systems = Lower Costs

•  Memory Constrained

• Higher cost •  ~2x CPU = underutilized • Wasted power • More network ports • Higher software costs • More points of mgmt

•  Memory Extension

•  Lower cost •  Fewer CPUs • More efficient •  Fewer network ports •  Lower software costs •  Fewer points of mgmt

Typical System



UCS I/O Gen 2 Adapters Vendor Description

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card/PCIe/2-port 10Gb

Intel Cisco UCS CNA M61KR-I Intel Converged Network Adapter

Qlogic Cisco UCS CNA M72KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapter

Emulex Cisco UCS CNA M72KR-E Emulex Converged Network Adapter

Broadcom Cisco UCS NIC M51KR-B Broadcom BCM57711 Network Adapter


  Multiple virtual adapters per physical adapter – Ethernet & FC

  PCIe standards compliant

  Supports single-OS & VM-based deployments

  High Performance

Virtualized Adapter

 Dynamic server provisioning – reduce purchases by time-sharing servers

–  Re-purpose servers by changing number & type of vNICs in server profiles

 Enhanced server availability – purchase fewer servers for HA –  Use same pool of standby servers for multiple server types – simply apply profile with appropriate vNICs

10GbE/FCoE

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  Infrastructure consolidation(less adapters, cables, management points)   On demand infrastructure   Simplified management

Server I/O Progression Adapter FEX

LAN

Adapter FEX architecture

Switch

FEX

Adapter FEX


LAN LAN Switch port extended over Fabric Extender

Bring switch ports all the way to the server using cascaded FEX architecture !!!

Switch

Switch

Legacy multi-tier architecture Adapter FEX architecture

Switch

FEX

Extending FEX architecture to the Server Cascading Port Extender (Pre-standard 802.1Qbh)

Adapter FEX



VM-FEX

Adapter FEX

PCIe virtualized

10Gb CNA

10Gb NIC

  Each virtual machine gets a first-class switch interface   Collapse virtual and physical networking infrastrutures

Server I/O Progression Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) VM-FEX architecture

Switch

FEX

Hypervisor

LAN

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

VM-FEX


Baseline architecture

Switch

FEX

Extending FEX architecture to Virtual Machines Cascading Port Extender (Pre-standard 802.1Qbh)

vSwitch

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

LAN

VM-FEX architecture

Switch

FEX

LAN

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

VM-FEX

Switch port extended over cascaded Fabric Extenders to the Virtual Machine

Collapse virtual and physical networking tiers!!!



Hypervisor Hypervisor

UCS 6100

VM VM

UC

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C

UC

S VI

C

UCS Server UCS Server

vCenter

Port Profiles Defined in UCSM

WEB Apps

HR

DB

Compliance

VC Deploys VMs with port groups

UCSM exports Port Profiles to VC

VM

VM VNIC

VETH


Hypervisor Hypervisor

UCS 6100

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VNIC

UCS Server UCS Server

VM-FEX Basics   Fabric Extender for VMs   Hypervisor vSwitch removed   Each VM assigned a PCIe device   Each VM gets a virtual port on

physical switch

VM-FEX: One Network   Collapses virtual and physical switching layers   Dramatically reduces network management points

by eliminating per host vSwitch   Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same Host CPU Cycles Relief   Host CPU cycles relieved from VM switching   I/O Throughput improvements

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B440 M2 4 Socket Intel E7, 4 SFF Disk, 32 DIMM

C200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 4 or 8 Disks, 12 DIMM, 2 PCIe 1U

C210 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 16 Disks, 12 DIMM, 5 PCIe 2U

C250 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 8 Disks, 48 DIMM, 5 PCIe 2U

C460 M2 4 Socket Intel E7, 12 Disks, 64 DIMM, 10 PCIe 4U

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B250 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 2 SFF Disk, 48 DIMM

B230 M2 2 Socket Intel E7, 2 SSD Disk, 32 DIMM

B200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 2 SFF Disk, 12 DIMM

C260 M2 2 Socket Intel E7, 16 Disks, 32-64 DIMM, 7 PCIe 2U


Item Size CPU Sockets CPU Memory Disks I/O

UCS B200 M2 Half 2 Intel Xeon 5600

12 DIMM 192 GB 2 SFF SAS 1 Mezz

UCS B250 M2 Full 2 Intel Xeon 5600

48 DIMM 384 GB 2 SFF SAS 2 Mezz

UCS B230 M2 Half 2 Intel Xeon E7-2800

32 DIMM 512GB 2 SSDs 1 Mezz

UCS B440 M2 Full 4 Intel Xeon E7-4800

32 DIMM 512GB 4 SFF SAS/

SATA 2 Mezz

B-Series Family Comparison

UCS B200 M2 General-Purpose

Blade Server

UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Server

UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server

Memory-intensive server for virtualized and large-

dataset workloads

Compute & memory-intensive server for enterprise-critical

workloads

High-density server with balanced compute performance

and I/O flexibility

UCS B230 M2 Compact, Performance

Blade Server

High-performance & compact server for

virtualized and enterprise-critical

workloads



Item CPU Size Memory Disks I/O

UCS C250 M2 Intel Xeon 5600 2RU

48 DIMM 384 GB

8 SFF SAS/SATA 5 PCIe


12 DIMM 192 GB

16 SFF SAS/SATA 5 PCIe


12 DIMM 192 GB

4 x 3.5-in. or 8 x 2.5-in. SAS/SATA

2 PCIe

UCS C200 M2 High-Density Rack-

Mount Server

UCS C210 M2 General-Purpose Rack-

Mount Server

UCS C250 M2 Extended Memory Rack-Mount

Server

High-density server with balanced compute

performance and I/O flexibility

General-purpose server for workloads requiring

economical, high-capacity internal storage

High-performance, memory-intensive server for virtualized and large-

dataset workloads

Cisco’s Unified Computing System C-Series rack-mount servers address the vast majority of data center compute requirements.

C-Series Intel EP Comparison


C-Series Family Comparison

Item CPU Size Memory Disks I/O

UCS C460 M2 Intel Xeon E7-4800 4RU 64 DIMM

1 TB 12 SFF

SAS/SATA 10 PCIe

UCS C260 M2 Intel Xeon E7-2800 2RU 64 DIMM

1 TB 16 SFF

SAS/SATA 6 PCIe

UCS C260 M2 Extended Memory Rack-Mount

Server

Large-Memory, I/O-and-compute-intensive workloads in

a 2RU form factor

UCS C460 M2 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server

Compute and memory-intensive server for enterprise-

critical workloads

Cisco’s Unified Computing System C-Series rack-mount servers address the vast majority of data center compute requirements.

C-Series Intel EX Comparison



Introducing C260 M2 Rack Server

•  Delivers unmatched memory, compute and I/O density

•  Two times the memory of any 2U rack server

•  10GbE and 1GbE LOMs

•  Ability to integrate into UCSM

•  Supports Cisco VIC

•  Performance-intensive virtual machines

•  2 socket 2U Westmere EX server

•  Up to 20 Cores

•  Westmere EX RAS features

•  Up to 64 DIMMs (up to 1TB of memory)

•  Up to 16 disk (SAS or SATA, SFF drives)

•  Up to 6 PCIe slots


Integration and Certification Partners

Database /Middleware

Enterprise Applications

Operating Systems

Virtualization

Storage

Management



25 months- 40+ World Records & Counting!

2-socket VMmark B200 M1

2-socket VMmark B250 M2

SPECjAPPServer 2004 single node 2-socket C250 M2

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2

SPECOMPM base2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECOMPL base2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2

2-socket server VMmark B200 recapture

LInPack 2-socket B200 M2

VMmark Overall C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1

SPECjbb2005 X86/64 4-socket C460 M1

LS-Dyna 4-socket C460M1

SPECOMPM base2001 4-socket C2460 M1

SPECOMPL base2001 4-socket C2460 M1

Oracle E-business Suite Ex-large Model payroll Batch B200M2

Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model payroll Batch B200M2

Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model Order to Cash B200M2

SPECjAPPServer 2004 2-node B230 M1


VMmark 1-Blade B440 M1

VMmark 1-Blade C460 M1

Oracle E-business Suite Medium Model payroll Batch B200M2

VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2

SPECOMPM base2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECOMPL base2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECjEnterprise 2010 Overall B440 M1

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86/64 2-socket B200 M2

VMmark 2.1 2 -socket-Blade B200 M2


VMmark 1.1 2 -socket-Blade B230 M1

#1

Q2 CY09 Q1 CY10 Q3 CY10 Q4 CY10 Q1 CY11

SPECfp_rate_base2006 C260 M2

SPECint_rate_base2006 C260 M2

SPECijbb2005 C260 M2

SPECompMbase2001 B230M2

SPECompLbase2001 B230 M2

SPECompMbase2001 C460 M2

SPECompLbase2001 C460M2

VMmark 2.1 C460 M2

SPECint_rate2006 Cisco UCS C460 M2

Q2 CY11

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86/64 2-Socket B200 M1

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86/64 2-Socket B200 M1


Server World Records

Results as of April 5, 2011 1Two socket comparison based x86 Volume servers—Intel Xeon series and AMD Opteron 6100 Series 1Four socket comparison based on x86 servers—Intel Xeon series and AMD Opteron 6100 Series

Overall Record Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll 581,846 Employees/Hour Large 422,535 Employees/Hour Medium

Overall Record SPECjEnterprise2010 17,301.86 EjOPS

Two-Socket Record SPECjbb*2005 1,337,210 BOPS

Two-Socket x86 Record SPECompM*base2001 67,926 base score*

Two-Socket Record SPECompL*base2001 378,522 base score

Two-Socket x86 Record SPECfp_rate_base2006 365 base score

Four-Socket X86 Blade Record SPECint*_rate_base2006 1030 base score

Four-Socket x86 Record SPECompM*base2001 115,176 base score

Four-Socket Record SPECompL*base2001 727,635 base score*

Two-Socket x86 Record

SPECint*_rate_base2006 526 base score

B440 M1

C460 M2

B230 M2

B230 M2

B200 M2

C460 M2

C460 M2

C460 M2

C260 M2

C260 M2

#1



Cisco Joins Computing’s Top Tier

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UCS #3 with 10.5%

UCS #2 with 19.7%

UCS After Two Short Years

UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation

Cisco is quickly passing established players in fastest growing segment of x86 computing market 2

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2011, May 2011 2 IDC Q4 CY10 Server Forecaster, 2010-2015 CAGR of x86 Blade Servers


Demand for data center innovation has vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to the #3 leader in the fast growing segment of the x86 server market

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Cisco Dell Fujitsu HP IBM NEC Oracle

Customer adoption of UCS is changing the server industry landscape

Cisco growth is out-pacing the market

Customers have shifted over 10% of the global x86 blade server market to Cisco and nearly 20% in the US

UCS #3 and climbing

Market appetite for Innovation

fuels UCS growth

WW X86 Server Blade Market Share

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2011, May 2011



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% of Respondents

Gartner report: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing, February 11, 2011, George J. Weiss and Andrew Butler Report. ID number: G00210438. You can read the full Gartner report here: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/cisco/210438.html

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